Device for securing scarf-pins



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J. E. MASTER.

DEVICE FOR SECURING SGARF PINS.

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UNITED. Snares PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN EDW'ARDS MASTER, OF FLUSHIN G, NEWV YORK.

DEVICE FOR SECURlNG SCARF-PINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 345,794, dated July 20,1886.

Application filed February 11, 1886. Serial No. 191,606.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN EDWARDS Mas- TER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Flushing, in the county of Queens and State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for SecuringScarf Pins, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to a device for securing scarf-pins and other likearticles of jewelry; and it consists of the peculiar and novelconstruction and combination of parts, substantially as hereinafterfully set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

The primary object of my invention is to provide a device that can bereadily adjusted upon a scarf pin, to bear against the fabric of thescarf to prevent the pin from being with drawn from the scarf until theimproved device shall have been first removed from the pin, therebyeffectually preventing the accidental detachment of the pin or the lossthereof, which, in the case of a diamond or other valuable scarfpin,very frequently creates great annoyance and anxiety.

My invention is readily applied to and removed from the pin of a scarf,and when it is adjusted thereon to properly bear against the scarf orother fabric it is rigidly clamped on the pin, to prevent the same frombeing withdrawn from the scarf, or the device to become detached fromthe pin and lost.-

The device is very simple and durable in its construction, thoroughlyeffective for the purposes designed, easy and ready of adjustment andoperation, and cheap and inexpensive of manufacture.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view showing my inventionapplied to a pin of a scarf and bearing against the scarf to which thepin is applied. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the sections ofmy improved securing device. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional viewthrough the device and a pin upon which it is adjusted. Fig. 4: is aview of a modified form of my invention.

Referring to the drawings, in which like letters of reference denotecorresponding parts in all the figures, A designates a retainingsleeve,that is adapted tobe fitted and ad- (N'o model.)

justed upon a scarf-pin, B, that has been properly affixed in and passedthrough a scarf, the

sleeve A bearing against the scarf at the point where the pin B emergesfrom the same, and it is clamped rigidly on the piu,to prevent thelatter from becoming accidentally detached from the scarf, or theretaining-sleeve from the pin. The sleeve A is made tubular in form, andit is provided on its inner surface with screw-threads a for a portionof its length,and an outwardlyflared socket,a, as clearly shown in thesectional view in Fig. 3.

O designates a binding or clamping sleeve that is detachably secured inthe retainingsleeve A, and which bears on the pin to hold the sleeve Arigidly in place. This binding sleeve 0 has a reduced threaded end, 0,that is adapted to be screwed into the threaded portion a of the sleeveA, a flaring or tapering end, 0, which bears against the socket or seata when the binding-sleeve O is adjusted in the retaining-sleeve A. Theenlarged flaring end 0 of the clamping'sleeve is provided withlongitudinal cuts or incisions d, that provide three or morebinding-arms, d, that are adapted to yield or spring; and thebindingsleeve is further provided with a longitudinal bore or passage,6, of a diameter a little greater than the diameter of the pin uponwhich it is to be adj nsted, so that the sleeve can be moved freely backand forth on .the pin to adjust or remove the same when the binding-armsdo not bite thereon.

The sleeves A G are provided at opposite ends with milled or otherroughened exterior surfaces, f, so that they can be easily and readilygrasped by the fingers to adjust and clamp the device upon a scarf-pin,and the sleeve 0 is provided at its enlarged end with an abutment orshoulder, g, which limits the rotation or adjustment of the sleeve 0within the sleeve A, the abutment g on the former coming in contact withthe edges of the flaring mouth of the seat or socket a of the latter, aswill be very readily understood.

The operation of the invention is obvious. The sleeve A is adjusted onthe pin B so that the milled or roughened end will bear against thescarf at the point where the pin emerges from the same, and the sleeve 0is then fitted on the pin and the threaded end thereof entered into thethreaded socket of the sleeve A, after which one or both of the sleevesare rotated in the proper directions until the flared seat of thesleeves A 0 comes in engagement, and which serves to force the yieldingarms d inwardly upon the pin, thus holding the device very firmly andrigidly on the pin and in contact with the scarf.

In the device shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings the retaining-sleeve A istapered longitudinally, and finished in any suitable manner, and themilled or roughened portionfthereof is formed on the end nearest themilled end of the binding-sleeve O, the sleeves in this device beingprovided with the threaded ends, the flaring seats, and the yieldingclampingarms, as hereinbefore described.

The invention can be applied upon ladies breastpins, and, in fact, anyarticle of jewelry or personal Wear where it is desirable to prevent theloss thereof.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new is- 1. A devicefor securing scarf-pins and other like articles, consisting of aclamping-sleeve provided with the binding-arms and fitted on the pin,and a retaining-sleeve detachably connected to the binding'sleeve andadapted to actuate the arms thereof, substantially as described.

2. A device for securing scarf-pins and other like articles of jewelry,comprising a retaining-sleeve adjusted on the pin to bear against thescarf or other fabric and having a flaring socket, and a clamping-sleeveprovided with binding-arms and an enlarged seat, substantially asdescribed.

3. Adevice for securing scarf'pins and other like articles ofjewelry,consisting of a retaining-sleeve, A, having the threaded and flaringsockets, and a binding-sleeve provided with a threaded end, a flaringseat, and the yielding arms, each of the sleeves having the peripheriesroughened, substantially as described.

4. A device for securing scarfpins and other like articles of jewelry,consisting of a retaining-sleeve, A, and a binding-sleeve, 0, having theyielding arms and detachably inclosed within the sleeve A, the sleeve 0having an abutment to limit its inward rotation, substantially asdescribed.

5. A device for securing scarf-pins and other like articles, consistingof a clamping-sleeve provided with a longitudinal opening and theyielding grippingarnis, and a retaining-sleeve detachably fitted on andinclosing the binding-sleeve and actuating the gripping-arms to forcethem into engagement with or release them from a scarfpin which ispassed through the longitudinal opening therein, substantially asdescribed.

6. A device for securing searf-pins and other like articles, comprisinga clamping-sleeve having an eXteriorly-th readed portion and thelongitudinal incisions to form the grippingarms, and a retaining-sleevehaving an inte riorly-threaded end and adapted to bear on thegrippingarins to actuate the latter, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN EDWARDS MASTER.

Witnesses:

D. W. Morr, D. MASTER.

